[yorkietalkjilly]

Preaching to the choir here but lessening calories will help some people like me, though it won't make America thinner and that's what the Fed harps mostly about as a catch-all phrase for what happens when we eat food & get fat - it's rarely from eating too much paleo or vegetarian or vegan - it's from empty-calorie junk food and all the ingredients in it that makes fat and unhealthy like fat, sodium, sugar. But the Fed just uses the weight factor as the catch-all term for why we're unhealthy or going to be unhealthy and that's how I'm using it here. Less calories at a junk food restaurant usually equates to less fat, sodium, sugar and the bad health, fat it causes.

It's funny you mention Supersize Me. I've personally seen Supersize Me 3+ times through and love it, used to keep it on the DVR and make friends/family watch it or as much of it as they would, as I've always been a healthy eater & love its message. When I do "sin", I usually only eat small portions of the bad stuff and my risk values remain low. I've noticed too, like Morgan in Supersize, when I eat say a "Baconator", I'm often hungry feeling on the one hand afterward but the fat shuts down my appetite so I can't really eat again anytime soon. Proves it's nothing much besides meat filler and cheap cheese and bacon is merely fat - no meat value.

But if listing calories will help some to keep from choosing the high calorie choices and all the fats, sodium, sugars that go with fast food chains' higher-cal items, I'm for it for those few it may help. But I'm not laboring under the fantasy that America will be the thinner for it.